Enjoy a day of lights, colours and optical illusions exploring the land of mirrors, colourful shadows and nature’s paint palette.
How to get started, discover resources to support your journey and consider ways to involve your team and community members as you begin your Reconciliation journey.
Come and see examples of documentation, explore different methods, reflect on the strengths that exist in your service and the opportunities for fine tuning.
Learn how to develop project work that can engage children in deep and sustained learning across the curriculum through long and short term planning.
Watch the beauty of mathematics unfold in everyday patterns, shapes and structures and discover the potential of play for the development of mathematical skills.
Explore the resources available to support your service as you strive to demonstrate evidence that you are at exceeding level quality.
Do you ever wonder how other services program for children? Are you struggling to demonstrate the cycle of planning or just need some inspiring new ideas?
This session will inspire and motivate you in your work to support children to make sense of their behaviour whilst meeting your goals of building strong relationships.
Learn about the history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples. Explore opportunities to authentically engage with Aboriginal culture and communities within your service.
Utilising the principle of reflective practice, this session will inspire and motivate you in your work to support children to make sense of their behaviour
As an educator in OSHC you play an important role in the lives, wellbeing and mental health of the children attending your program.
‘A day with Quality Area 1.’ Are we documenting in the same way as others? How do we ensure that each child is visible in the planning cycle?
Learn about the practice of critical reflection, discuss the unique aspects of working with children in the birth – two age group
How do we ensure that we are planning effectively for infants and toddlers to support their wellbeing and development as well as document it? (new session)
How a team functions is dependent on both of these important factors. Come and find out how to ensure things get prioritised and actioned and ban the excuses!
When working with children who are in kinship and foster care arrangements we use relationship based approaches to support the child and family.
Early care professionals benefit from guidance on how to promote secure attachment relationships with children in their care.
A day with QA2, everything from policy and procedures to risk assessing and talking excursions! Come along and ask questions, engage with educators and critically reflect in QA2.
Starting intervention as early as possible is the best way to support the development of children with learning or physical difficulties.
This session is for ECTs and Directors and is aimed at providing an overview of how to navigate the transition from provisional to full teachers registration.
A day with QA3, everything from inclusive environments, indoor and outdoor play, quality experiences and developing an attitude of environmental responsibility!
This session is designed for educators who work with children who have experienced Trauma. We will discuss and learn how trauma affects the brain.
Have you ever met a child who is not fascinated by water? From ice blocks to raindrops, children love to explore water from an early age.
Learn about the Kaurna people and their history at a deeper level while exploring opportunities to authentically engage with Kaurna Elders.
We will explore the importance of each step of the planning cycle and identify ways to document and demonstrate this for each child and the group.
Find out about how to manage continuity of staff, how to foster professionalism and how professional standards can guide practice, interactions and relationships.
This session is aimed at educators new to the OSHC service and sector. his session will provide an introduction to My Time, Our Place, the NQF, professionalism and your role.
Learn how to set up systems to ensure you are meeting your service obligations for HR compliance with the NQF and leave with a spreadsheet ready to customise.
Your philosophy is the basis of everything you do and is so important to use in recruiting, induction of new team members and will guide your decision making.
Gain energy and perspective from other directors as you work through your new year vision for your service.
Do you ever wonder how other services program for children? Are you struggling to demonstrate the cycle of planning or just need some inspiring new ideas?
‘Becoming’ a new director is exciting and challenging. We can set you off on a successful journey and ensure you have access to the tools and information needed.
Explore responsive and meaningful interactions, how to support the dignity and rights of children and how to provide opportunities for collaborative learning.
Come along to this hands on session engaging in everything QA6. Learn about developing respectful and collaborative relationships with families and communities.
Bring fresh air into the room, catch soap bubbles and experience that air is so much more than ‘nothing’.
Come and join Benjamin, an experienced OSHC Director, as he explores creative ways to keep staff engaged and part of your OSHC community to ensure the best outcomes for all.
Come and join an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Educator working with infants and toddlers on Kaurna land here at Gowrie SA.
Enjoy a virtual breakfast with your colleagues to explore and discuss the new Educational Leader Resource (ACECQA 2019).
Following on from the first of these sessions we look at more responsibilities of Directors' and how to mange your time, resources and people.
Come along and to this hands on session engaging in everything QA7. What is effective leadership and management?
Spend the day learning simple marketing and digital marketing principles and techniques to develop a marketing plan that supports your service viability!
This session will inspire and motivate you in your work to support children to make sense of their behaviour whilst meeting your goals of building strong relationships.
Come and learn about how your Reconciliation Action Plan and QIP can inform each other in order to create improved outcomes for ALL children.
This session is for ECTs and Directors and is aimed at providing an overview of how to navigate the transition from provisional to full teachers registration.
Explore the resources available to support your service as you strive to demonstrate evidence that you are at exceeding level quality.
In this popular session we will unpack and articulate the purpose of observations, gain insight into the when, how and what to notice and write about children.
This session is perfect for you if you have recently started OR completed your Reconciliation journey. With guest presenter Shona Reid, Executive Director, Reconciliation Australia
This session will support your understanding of what sensory needs children have, and how this might look in your service.
‘Becoming’ a new OSHC director is exciting and challenging. You may be newly appointed or considering this as a career option.
Come and learn about the trauma, how it impacts on children and how we, as educators, can support children within our learning environments.
Following on from the first session, we look at more responsibilities of OSHC directors and how to manage time, resources and people.
